Monthly Archives: October 2011

How To: select SharePoint 2010 external data model picker display field

In my last article on creating SharePoint 2010 referenced external lists you’ve seen how you can create an external list which was connecting to 2 related tables in SQL and display the related field as a picker UI where users … Continue reading

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Creating related external BCS lists in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 allows you to create external BCS lists which can surface the data from external data source. As it often happens, external data sources may have various inter-related entities where foreign keys represent relationship between those entities. In this … Continue reading

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Upgrading publishing masterpages in SharePoint 2010

If you worked on the SharePoint 2010 site sustainment project, you know that in SharePoint Publishing, when provisioning a file in a module and existing file already exists in the underlying library, you will receive an error. In my case, … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 mysite customizations demystified

Yesterdays Vancouver SharePoint Usergroup meeting brought up some interesting points about how SharePoint 2010 my sites can be customized. I’d like to share some of my findings when working with mysites, many more details you can find in my book … Continue reading

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Customizing SharePoint 2010 breadcrumb – few options

If you worked with SharePoint 2007 breadcrumb, you know that it`s more like a traditional breadcrumb and not like in SharePoint 2010: So, there are few ways to get the old breadcrumb. For both of the scenarios you need to … Continue reading

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Automatically set SharePoint 2010 masterpage on publishing site provisioned

When creating SharePoint 2010 sites for your users, you’ll be sometimes asked to allow users to create new site instances with the custom look and feel. This is a common request; for example, if all of your company press releases … Continue reading

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Branding SharePoint 2010 modal dialogs

As you’re branding your SharePoint 2010 site, your customer may ask you to do something about those modal dialogs. After all, they have SP2010 out-of-the-box look and feel and don’t fit in with the rest of your custom branding. The … Continue reading

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Customizing AccessDenied, SignOut and other pages in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell

When building custom solution on SharePoint, whether intranet or public facing, you often need to balance out-of-the-box functionality with custom look and feel your customer is asking. There are number of out-of-the-box system pages which SharePoint uses to display upon … Continue reading

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TechDays 2011 coming soon, registration special available now!

As you may know, TechDays 2011 is just around the corner and TechDays team has selected some great sessions for you. Check out the sessions so far here The event is going to take place in three cities this year: … Continue reading

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